Noncoherent detection of preamble-signal-assisted differentially phase-encoded APSK signals

A noncoherent detection scheme for differentially encoded amplitude- and phase-shift-keyed data transmission, assisted with differentially phase-shift-keyed preamble signals, is presented and analyzed for an additive white Gaussian noise channel. It is analytically shown that, despite a controllable reduction in bandwidth efficiency, the proposed scheme yields an error performance approaching that of the quadrature amplitude modulation scheme with ideal coherent detection within a loss of approximately 1 dB.